… repairs has resulted in a decrease of hernia recurrence rates to between 1% and 5%[5].
Chronic postoperative inguinal pain … is the most relevant outcome of inguinal hernia repair [6, 7]. …

… Persistent pain after hernia repair is common, although it is … examine factors that affect pain
after hernia repair. Although the … to affect acute pain, chronic persistent pain is influenced by …

… the development of chronic pain after leg amputation, … hernia repair. This was a prospective
study of the incidence of late pain 1 year after 500 consecutive open groin hernia repairs. …

… disillusioned with the generally poor results of inguinal hernia repair and regarded the
original Bassini repair inadequate. He described a repair using nylon suture material as a two-…

… of postoperative pain after elective day-case open inguinal hernia repair under local …
After 500 hernia operations in 466 unselected patients aged 18–90 years, pain was scored (…

… Since recurrence rates have been reduced to a few per cent with mesh repairs, outcome
research in groin hernia repair has recently focused on chronic pain. Chronic pain adversely …

… of patients who report severe or very severe pain 3 months after groin hernia repair. … or very
severe chronic groin pain at 3 months after groin hernia repair still have pain 2±3 years later. …

… with neuropathic pain after hernia repair was higher than the 28.7% other authors identified
by means of neuropathic pain descriptors in the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire [18] …

… The aim of this study was to compare the rate of persistent pain 1 year after hernia repair in
routine surgical practice, and also the rate of reoperation for recurrence, for different surgical …

… pain and recovery time after tissue repair along with our understanding of the metabolic origin
of inguinal hernias led … of inguinal hernia repair are the open repairs and the laparoscopic …